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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-10-06 16:23:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-10-06 16:23:19 +0200 |
| commit | aa4f43e7c9750a57e15002db2bda3517d8dee682 (patch) | |
| tree | 41d4e814dc19a3a44326e4c67792a686c6371ee2 /README | |
| parent | ac211788f362b580f8ee508cacd40fa4a809a3cb (diff) | |
| download | parted-aa4f43e7c9750a57e15002db2bda3517d8dee682.tar.gz | |
doc: update README
* README (WARNING): Mention upcoming removal of FS-manipulation
capabilities and that we'll retain FAT/HFS resize capabilities.
Remove an obsolete URL. Do not encourage email to individuals.
Update info-viewing instructions, provide the on-line doc URL.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 43 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -1,35 +1,43 @@ GNU Parted ---------- -GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and -copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating -space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between -hard disks, and disk imaging. +GNU Parted is a program for manipulating partition tables. + +WARNING: USING PARTED TO PERFORM FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS IS DEPRECATED +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Parted retains (for now) the ability to create and modify a few types of +file systems, but that functionality is deprecated. Whenever possible, +we recommend that you use file-system-specific tools to create and +operate on file systems. For example, use the e2fsprogs programs +to operate on ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Use programs from +the reiserfsprogs package if you want to manipulate reiserfs file +systems. Although Parted lets you do some of the same things, the +file-system-related code in parted is not as robust as the code in +more specialized, FS-specific packages. + +So far, we have good arguments for retaining the capability to resize +FAT and HFS file systems: as far as we know, no other free software +provides that functionality. However, all other FS-related functionality +will be removed from an upcoming release of Parted. Thus, you should +now avoid using the following commands: mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check +since support for them will be removed. * documentation is in the doc/ directory. The User's documentation is in texinfo format, and is built into a format viewable by info/pinfo when -you run make. i.e. +you run make. To view the distributed texinfo documentation, run this: - $ ./configure - $ cd doc - $ make $ info -f parted.info -Yes, it sucks that you need to run ./configure before you can read the manual. -If you have problems with it, doc/parted.texi should be fairly easy to read, -just a bit less userfriendly. - If you prefer html format, you can run: +Or view it on-line at: - $ cd doc - $ makeinfo --html parted.texi + http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html - * an online tutorial is available at http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/parted * the GNU Parted home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/parted * the GNU Parted FAQ can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/faq.html * send bug reports, requests for help, feature requests, comments, etc. to -bug-parted@gnu.org. The authors can be contacted directly (see the AUTHORS -file). + bug-parted@gnu.org. NOTE TO DISTRIBUTIONS @@ -60,4 +68,3 @@ only interested in partition tables). Since it's readonly, --enable-debug gains you nothing wrt safety, so use --disable-debug ;) The "discover" program is about 35k (gzipped) when compiled this way (not counting libc and libuuid). - |